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Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church is committed to loving God and loving neighbor with our whole selves - heart, mind, soul, and strength. As Jesus loved those around him, we believe that all persons are of sacred worth and dignity as part of God’s creation. We welcome all persons into the full life and ministry of our congregation, regardless of race, culture, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or socioeconomic status, education, politics, physical or mental ability, or faith history.
Congregational Care
Glenn Church cares about you. In the name and spirit of Jesus Christ, we seek to provide care through our Congregational Care Ministry to those facing life's spiritual, emotional, and physical challenges. Using church and community resources, we respond to real-life needs through pastoral staff as well as caring lay people.
Lay Ministry Team
The Lay Ministers nurture and care for individuals in the church community during times of illness, hospitalization, grief, and other challenging life situations. The Lay Ministers prepare for this ministry through an intensive ten-week training program and receive continuing instruction and supervision in monthly group sessions.
Care Team
A simple phone call, a card in the mail, or a short visit to share God's love with those who may be homebound or lonely. Care Team volunteers will be matched with one or two church members to stay in touch. Contact Carole Adams (404.377.1504).
Counseling
Glenn has a cooperative agreement with Care and Counseling Center of Georgia. The Care and Counseling Center of Georgia is independent of Glenn Memorial Church, but the church has assistance funds available for persons seeking counseling. Persons seeking professional counseling may contact the Care and Counseling Center directly and apply for Glenn Memorial Assistance Funds. Based on a sliding scale, the funds reduce the per visit fee for eligible persons to an amount between $10 and $50.
The Care and Counseling Center staff includes Pastoral Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Professional Counselors, and a Clinical Psychologist (PhD). Medical staffing is provided through a contract relationship with a Psychiatrist (MD).
Care and Counseling Center of Georgia
1814 Clairmont Road
Decatur, GA 30033
404.636.1457
cccgeorgia.org
1814 Clairmont Road
Decatur, GA 30033
404.636.1457
cccgeorgia.org
To receive or be a part of any of these ministries,
please contact Minister for Children and Older Adults Rev. Susan Pinson.
Prison
Glenn offers service opportunities with Arrendale Women’s Prison, Kairos Ministry, and has begun a Prison Pen Pal Ministry.
Contact Rev. Josh Amerson.
Upcoming Event
3rd Annual Arts & Eats Fundraiser, May 3, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Atlanta History Center
Arts and Eats is an annual fundraiser benefiting Snack in a Backpack and Intown Collaborative Ministries. Join us to raise funds and awareness for these two important programs reducing hunger and homelessness in our neighborhoods. There will be food, silent and live auctions, entertainment and a wall of wine! $100/person. Purchase tickets.
Contact Dawn Francis-Chewning if you'd like to make donations for the auction and Deborah Marlowe if you'd like to be a sponsor, patron, or host.
Personal Writing and Memoir Workshop
Sundays, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., Jan 25 - April 26 in Room 401
Have you ever wanted to write your own story - for a wider audience, for your children or grandchildren, or simply for yourself? Join us as we explore elements of personal writing, journaling to spark ideas, share our writing and offer constructive feedback to others in an environment of support and trust. If you've never written a word about your life, or if you have written many, please join us - all levels are welcome! Come for one evening, or for every class. Contact Claire Asbury Lennox.
Have you ever wanted to write your own story - for a wider audience, for your children or grandchildren, or simply for yourself? Join us as we explore elements of personal writing, journaling to spark ideas, share our writing and offer constructive feedback to others in an environment of support and trust. If you've never written a word about your life, or if you have written many, please join us - all levels are welcome! Come for one evening, or for every class. Contact Claire Asbury Lennox.
Methodism 101: A 4-week Sunday School Class
Join your pastoral staff for conversations on what it means to be United Methodist. Join us for all discussions including History of Methodism, Sacraments and Theology, Polity and Prayers, Presence, Gifts, Service and Witness. Stayed tuned for the next offering of Methodism 101.
Seasonal Options:
Men in Transitions Group
Sundays, March 8 - April 19 from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. in Room 408 of the Church School Building. Glenn's own Rev. Dave Speno is conducting a six week class entitled "Stress in the Midst of Change: A Clinical and Theological Exploration." The group is for men who are experiencing stress brought about various changes in their life – changes in relationships, jobs, homes, and everything in between. Dave is a retired pastoral counselor who worked with the Care and Counseling Center of Georgia and is an active volunteer with Glenn’s Boy Scout Troop. To RSVP, contact Dave Speno or John Wiley.
Healing Hearts - A Six-Week Parental Grief Support Group for Parents Who Have Lost a Child to Drug Overdose
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"OH! WE'RE NOT THAT KIND OF CHRISTIAN!"
INSIDE GLENN: THE COVENANT CLASS
THEORIES OF A JUST WAR: THE NEW CLASS..?
JUDGE NELLIE "FUCK THE LORAX" WITHERS
GHOST WRITER WANTED: APPLY WITHIN OR DEKALB COUNTY JAIL
DEAR PRETTY BOY SUNDAY: DIVISION WITHIN THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH
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Bob Gary
Th.D, Member AAPCSpecialties: Individuals, Couples, Families, Groups, Church/Organizational Consultant, Pastoral Consultant, Clergy Sexual Abuse, Grief, Transitions, Depression
Contact Information:
404-636-1457 ext. 425
bgary@cccgeorgia.org
Counseling Centers:
CCCG Main Office – Decatur (Decatur, GA)
CONCLUSION:
FIVE YEARS LATER...
WHAT A FUCKING JOKE!!!
DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY...
NOTHING BUT A PREACHER TRAINED TO SOUND LIKE A PROFESSIONAL QUACK!
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I'm the crazy guy.
Yes I do have a crystal meths addiction.
This all started Thanksgiving 2010 when I attempted my own drug addiction intervention by confessing to everyone
starting
with the wife of nationally known pastoral
consultant
George Robert Gary, Sr. ThD;
retired from Emory's Candler School of Theology but still working
at
"Pastoral"
Care and Counseling Center of Georgia
located
just down the street on corner of Mason Mill and Clairmont.
As experience is just nature cruel way of giving the exams first followed by their lessons,
I've since learned:
DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY NOTHING BUT A PREACHER THAT TRAINED TO SOUND LIKE A PROFESSIONAL QUACK!
And the nonsensical signs:
the one about Rosewood Massacre is just my crafty cow way of competing the only way I'm best able figuring out how up against all the experience backing up Dr. Gary's
"thou artful dodger ways"
as a pastor
with his use of loaded emotive languages,
and his connections with Emory University,
calling his wife,
who I wrongly belived to be my only friendly neighbor,
just another
pernicious prevaricating cunt!
[–]SimplyJim 1 point
For crying out loud.
HE'S A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER...
AGAIN!
I'm sure he's able defending himself, still, quite well against a hearing impaired fifty-three year old crackhead.
The reason I'm so fixated on our Miracle Baby Tebow:
because there is nothing any more special about his mother than my mother except his mother getting
?exactly?
what she wanted;
a healthy baby football player more likely than another minister!
"Is it wrong that I don't want my son to be gay,"
said my mother crying years later as we drove from Prescott, Arkansas to Little Rock for a niece wedding;
having chanced for the second time getting arrested flying home with the crystal meths for these two weddings.
"No Mother. It's not...WRONG... that you don't want your son to be gay.
But...
you've known since I was twenty-three
(forty-seven at the time of this private mother/son conversation);
GET OVER IT!"
Until our...
MIRACLE BABY TEBOW...
settles down and starts breeding more PRO-LIFE,
I'm not totally convinced that Tebow isn't gay..?
Can you just imagine what it might be like for a young gay man,
trying to come out of the closet,
having a mother like his having publicly capitalized on
"her"
PRO-LIFE-CHOICE
during "their" pregnancy
with our
MIRACLE BABY TEBOW..?
Before the whole wide world..?
Had Tim been born into a Catholic family instead of a Baptist family,
would not have surprised me Tim becoming a priest instead of a football player.
Though the main purpose of the Westbore Baptist Church's Priests Rape Boys website is to criticize Catholicism, the WBC also criticizes several mainline Protestant churches on the website, including Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Baptists. The WBC states that:
...their preachers have shirked their responsibility to tell people the truth about sin, and instead lie to them about what the Lord their God doth require of them. If these lying, false prophets told people the truth about what God says regarding those who suffer sin upon their neighbor (Lev. 19:17–18), there wouldn't be any butts in the seats when the plate got passed. These preachers are not preachers of righteousness, they are teachers having itching ears (2Tim 4:3), and they absolutely count on the abysmal bible illiteracy of their parishioners ... "Priests rape boys" is indeed an air-tight, three word case against all of the mainline "christian" churches – their preachers and members, without exception. They are all going to Hell!
So...
there is some truth to WBC's statement here about the Catholic Church.
Personally know for a fact, our Methodists, definitely do have itching ears!
Due to having been raised as a Methodist first eighteen years of my life, I now justifiably consider myself to be "Methodist Fag" as an adult because of my experiences with the family of Bob Gary, and by extension, secular Methodist Emory University; although, radical atheist would be the label I consider to be a better fit.
But in your worlds you will know me by other names; changing nothing.
With our "Miracle Baby" Tebow having been home-schooled by missionaries,
I'm sure if there's anything Tim knows well besides football,
it would be the lessons needing to be learned from our bible stories:
that his life has indeed been blessed;
that there is far more to life than the game of football,
in fact,
life is the game itself;
that God does love playing this game,
his specialty being the curve ball;
that this curve ball could easily be his first child, his family owed a corrective with their inexcusable misuse of survivor's bias, confirmation bias, and congeniality bias.
Besides,
having never had vaginal intercourse with a woman myself, technically even I'm still a virgin at the age of fifty-three:
pragmatic competence being the actual game here.
You know what?
Seeing no end to this,
and needing a break from this computer,
maybe Tim Tebow should take out a restraining order against me..?
"I can of my own self do nothing:
as I sense, I judge:
and my judgement is just;
not Because I seek my own will but the will of thy
collective unconsciousness which cometh before me."
~JOHN 5:30
(Simply Jim's Revised Version)
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